FIFA - Fevernova At the final draw in Busan, Korea on 1 December 2001, the Fevernova was unveiled as the official match ball for the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan™. Experts say that the Fevernova will set a new standard in the sport. It is the most accurate football ever produced by Adidas.
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Clear Shot for World Cup on WebTime differences of up to 12 hours may make this the Internet's best World Cup, with rooters going online to get scores, analysis and -- in a Cup first -- video streams while at work or from home.
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So they lost. After trying to face-off with eBay in Yerp (as Yahoo's Californian bods like to call it), Yahoo! is to close its online auction sites in Germany, the UK, France, Spain, Italy and Ireland. Like the Soviet Union versus the US of A, it just can't afford the war, and is pulling out in order to nurse its wounds after the slump in online advertising. The deal is that eBay will now pay Yahoo! an undisclosed sum in the "multiyear deal" to promote eBay's auction sites through banner ads, text links and other promotions in the markets it leaves behind.

"This is an outstanding move for Yahoo! Europe, both strategically and financially," said Mark Opzoomer, managing director of Yahoo! Europe in a Pathetic! statement. Yahoo auctions will stay on in the markets they think they are strongest - the highly lucrative and massively populated regions of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. *That's* the "outstanding" move?

Hubble has 20/20 vision, and what it sees is pretty cool ... I can hear Carl Sagan saying," Billions and billions of new stars have been found, leading to billions and billions of new potential intergalactic neighbors."

Astronomers have been bowled over by some spectacular new pictures of the Universe.
They were captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instrument, which was installed during a space shuttle servicing mission in March.

America Online (NYSE:AOL) announced the deal Tuesday after the oft-extended deadline for a renewal of the Overture deal passed, giving the contract to Google to power its pay-for-placement search results. Overture will hang on to its deal to run AOL Europe's search listings in the UK, Germany, and France but give way to Google in the U.S. sites by August.

While Overture went into spin-mode (...they released the news at 10 pm ET Tuesday night...) to cushion the blow from losing AOL's business, the excitement at Google was palpable. "We're delighted (and pleased) that America Online has selected our growing paid listings service, which offers a cost-effective way to market and advertise while providing relevant search results to consumers," Google CEO Eric Schmidt raved in a statement. While financial terms of the deal were not released, it is a massive coup for Google, which already has a deal with mega-portal Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) under its belt.